I stand on the platform on the Stark Tower, overlooking as New York’s is torn to shreds by my Chitari. I watch as the Avengers barely make a dent in my army, the portal above me still producing Chitari by the hundreds. Then something I never could have dreamed happens… In a flurry of magic they appear before me, my childhood friend who was banished from Asgard centuries ago…

"How…?"

My mouth gapes open, my eyes wide in shock. They are more ethereal than I remember…